Preparedness for when

siegemode

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

SIEGEMODE I've only just now checked in to read and I'm so sad for you, to lose a friend after being together and loving each other for such a long time leaves a huge gap and such sadness for the friend left behind. Time does accustom you to the loss but it will be raw for a while I know. You had unconditional love for each other and she will still love you even though you are no longer able to be together at the moment. She had a loving home and a caring and responsible owner and you can't give more than that to an animal friend that you love, especially if she had a rocky start to her life with another family. You have given her the best life it was possible to give and I'm sure you made her as happy as she made you. As long as you love and remember her you'll never ever lose her, she'll always be part of your life and will ALWAYS love you, she's just a breath away and loves you still!!! Hugs Lyn xxx.

Thank you, I'm sure she is with us and a few things that have happened today have confirmed this and helped OH deal with this too. We used to say she was an old soul, an angel who could see spirit and everyone who met her would fall in love with her. My healer friends would comment on how special she was. I've called people today to tell them of her passing and it's been the same as if I was sharing the news of a human passing.

Our sole surviving kittie is feeling the loss but I'm sure he will miss the extra portions at meal times more. He's such a gannet and huge, time for a diet me thinks.

Have decided to declutter the house' (long overdue:o) and the decorate ready for a couple of new family members hopefully. Daren't look at shelters and the blue cross yet though or the jobs won't get done. Want to prepare properly before we adopt a couple of kittens.

Witless

greenbee wrote: »

I've just found a note in my desk (which belonged to my grandfather, and it's in his writing) saying 'Buchan's weather spells' and then listing dates for warm and cold weather.

Do any of you know anything about them?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/its_buchan_cold

http://www.weathercast.co.uk/weather-news/news/ch/23ba64ba62807a6e3d649985141b30d3/article/alexander_buchan-1.html

siegemode

jk0 wrote: »

Oh, don't dismiss hubby's feeling SM. Orange sent me a new Bright Box to replace my old Speedtouch, and it gave me a headache even with the wireless signal switched off. I have now gone back to the Speedtouch. As I mentioned to GQ a few weeks ago, it has the added advantage of not using any power when my computer is off.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1311.R1.TR4.TRC1.A0.H0.Xspeedtou&_nkw=speedtouch+330&_sacat=0&_from=R40

(I can't use mobile phones for the same reason, and even my freeview box lives in a steel case and is switched off at night.)

Edit: It just occured to me that a Speedtouch modem plugged into a laptop working on batteries would continue to work in the event of a power cut.

I haven't dismissed OH opinions on the router and wireless by any means and will be trying to avoid all other wireless stuff in the home and also have concerns and suffer the effects of mobiles. Unfortunately living in a modern terrace with [STRIKE]cardboard [/STRIKE] thin walls and surrounded by wifi I put up with the risks in order to stay informed and online. I could use a cable but it's not very practical and I can guarantee it would be ripped out within 24 hrs with me being so clumsy.

I don't like having a phone next to me, but with elderly parents I can't afford to turn it off or leave it downstairs because it takes a while for my feet and ankles to work when I get up. I've almost tumbled down the stairs many a time when trying to reach the front door before a caller or the postman gives up in the morning.

jpscloud

Another de-lurker to offer you hugs and condolences, seigemode.

siegemode

jk0 wrote: »

Oh, yes Mrs LW has reminded me of a lovely story I read in the Mail a few years ago:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221018/Smitten-kitten-When-I-rescued-dying-animal-start-truly-magical-friendship.html

Thanks for sharing this. Such a lovely story, I read it to OH and had to pause several times, by the time I got to the end we both felt emotional and I was in tears again.

The support received on here today has really helped us through:A

armyknife

kittie wrote: »

he gets very annoyed that so called scientists advise the government that we are in the throes of climate warming when in FACT the weather patterns are caused by solar/lunar aspects

The article was there at cost to him but no cost to readers. You have the choice of not reading

As a `fellow scientist` a physicist actually, I spend my money on buying his forecasts as they are so incredibly accurate and I try to pass a little onto others so that people can prepare, as much as they can, even if it is just by getting food in and staying at home

Getting annoyed doesn't seem like a constructive position to take in a scientific debate.

For that matter tying something in capitals doesn't make it an indisputable fact either. ;-)

ALIBOBSY

Sorry to those who have lost kitties, I still get upset thinking about the kitties I have lost over the years. My lovely Thomas and little Fi Fi send you purrs.

Anyone else watching "Deadly Dilemas" on discovery. You have to try to decide which of the dilemas you would most likely be able to survive . You have 9 lives and 9 dilemas lol.

Ali x

boddy

siegemode Come out of lurking to give you virtual hugs. I do believe they come back at times to let us know they are still around. Lost a lovely boy myself a few months ago. Then in a amazing coincidence a beautiful ginger boy has come to share my home with me. I'm very sure he was sent to me.

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armyknife wrote: »

Getting annoyed doesn't seem like a constructive position to take in a scientific debate.

For that matter tying something in capitals doesn't make it an indisputable fact either. ;-)

It would be lovely if you added something CONSTRUCTIVE to the thread. Discussions on abstract matters are best on the discussion thread btw

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Lovely stories about people's cats. I grew up with a succession (and occasional overlap) of family cats.

We still reminise sometimes about the antics of these cats, which together represent the companions of 50 years of my parents' married life. Their pix are in the family albums (usually sitting on someone, occasionally starring in their own shots).

The chronological order; The Black One from kittenhood (he was never named), G the informal rescue at a few months old, overlapping in his old age with The Daft One from kittenhood, overlapping with M, who decided aged 9 to move in with us, followed by T the other black cat from the cat rescue aged 3, followed by the present incumbents in 2004; Wild Thing and The Queen of Sheba.

Yesterday, I saw something adorable quite by chance. I was wheelbarrowing stuff to the green waste section of the tip and had to pause to rest my arms for a moment. So I was somewhere on foot where people are normally only very briefly by car. And I glanced sideways and saw first one tabby and then more resolve out of the background of plants and fence where they were sunning themselves. Two black ones, three brindled tabbies, and two half-grown kittens, one tabby and one tortie.

They watched me warily but with utter self-possession, that little tabby kitten sitting upright in the sun, eyes closed in bliss and almost seeming to smile. Lovely sight. I trundled on with my barrow quite restored.

Am having a leisurely brekkie before heading allotmentwards. Weather not so nice as yesterday but dry atm so must seize the moment.